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Summary
The speaker questions the government's response to peaceful student protesters approaching Parliament, wondering how meaningful democracy is if citizens can't demand attention from their representatives.
From the report
Do peaceful, non-violent Indian protesters. protesting in a just cause have the right to walk to Parliament and demand the attention of their MPs and government? The government's answer is clearly they don't. In which case, how meaningful is our democracy? That question answers itself, Karan. This parliament is run with our taxpayer money. These people are our representatives. That House of Parliament is ours. It belongs to the kids. It belongs to the future. They have an absolute right to enter it. And they were doing it peacefully. It's not as if they were burning... Effigies or kicking things or destroying stuff. They were approaching peacefully. But then you can't have questions, you see. You can't have questions because there are no answers. And the cowardly Prime Minister will run away. The moment he, and of course he did, by the back gate. when the students approached. It's... I never thought I'd live to see this day. I never thought I'd live to see this day. This is not the India I was taught to love.
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Summary
The speaker questions the government's response to peaceful student protesters approaching Parliament, wondering how meaningful democracy is if citizens can't demand attention from their representatives.
“This is not the India I was taught to love.”From the report
Do peaceful, non-violent Indian protesters. protesting in a just cause have the right to walk to Parliament and demand the attention of their MPs and government? The government's answer is clearly they don't. In which case, how meaningful is our democracy? That question answers itself, Karan. This parliament is run with our taxpayer money. These people are our representatives. That House of Parliament is ours. It belongs to the kids. It belongs to the future. They have an absolute right to enter it. And they were doing it peacefully. It's not as if they were burning... Effigies or kicking things or destroying stuff. They were approaching peacefully. But then you can't have questions, you see. You can't have questions because there are no answers. And the cowardly Prime Minister will run away. The moment he, and of course he did, by the back gate. when the students approached. It's... I never thought I'd live to see this day. I never thought I'd live to see this day. This is not the India I was taught to love.
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